Features & Benefits
- The elementary constituent of all living substance and the substratum of all elementary vital phenomena is the cell.
- General physiology has arrived at a point in its development where it must constantly extend its inquiries to the cell.
- The general problems of life are cell-problems.
- In the present book, general physiology is treated as general cell-physiology.
- The comparative method of dealing with physiological problems should be maintained.
- Physiology dealt more and more with the special problems of the human body, but the amount of material available for work in this latter field is too small in view of the variety of problems.